Ulstein Sea of Solutions To Further Engineer Heerema Newbuild
After having developed the concept and basic design for Heerema‘s new monohull vessel, Ulstein Sea of Solutions (USOS) has now also been awarded the further engineering of the vessel with the selected shipyard, DSME of Korea. USOS signed a contract with DSME on 13 September for further vessel engineering and integration of the mission equipment designed by Huisman.
The self-propelled DP3 Deepwater Construction Vessel is a customised version of the Ulstein SOC 5000 vessel design. The Heerema vessel features a revolving heavy lift capability of 4,000 t, deepwater lowering equipment up to 3,500 metres and a pipelay tower for J-lay and reel-lay operations via a moonpool. The hull configuration is specially designed for fast transit speeds and optimum motion characteristics in operation. The vessel is DP3-class equipped with 2 x 6500 kW and 4 x 3200 kW thrusters allowing for a transit speed of 12-14 knots.
Following the contract award to DSME by Heerema, Ulstein Sea of Solutions signed a contract with DSME on the 13th of September for further vessel engineering and integration of the mission equipment designed by Huisman. “The work will be executed by a dedicated project office in Vlaardingen where engineers from DSME and Ulstein Sea of Solutions work closely together. The central location of the Ulstein Sea of Solutions office, close to Heerema and Huisman, is important to have good communication and flow of information required to shorten the timeline in the early phase of the construction of such a vessel”, says USOS project manager Edwin van Leeuwen.